This Might Be The Final Assassin’s Creed IV Trailer

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Despite the pointed mockery of John’s Assassy Creed trailer post, Ubisoft haven’t let up in their desire to tell expose every little detail about the fourth (but not really fourth) Assassin’s Creed game in trailers. There have been three this week. They are shameless. I was going to do a post with them all again, but the weight of that many Flash instances on one page breaks my browser, so I am instead posting the latest one. It handily manages to distill everything we know about the game into a scant 9 minutes. Think about that, Ubisoft: you have one trailer doing the job of more than thirty.
I also get to bump the piracy tag with another game. Hooray! This is a very strange trailer: it really does tell you everything about the game, so if you had a plan to avoid such in-depth knowledge then it’s best skipped. Though I don’t know how you managed it, because I hear the next step is for Ubisoft to start broadcasting the trailers into your dreams. The only way to avoid them is to not fall asleep. So there you have it, Ubisoft is the Freddy Krueger of game publishers.

It’s out on the 19th/22nd of November, because the world is the shape it is.

Indeed. The first game doesn’t require you to do all the missions to reach the final fight of each city, nor does it have achievements for finishing them if you decide to anyway, so there’s not much point in playing the whole thing.

2 and Brotherhood are ace. I recommend you power through the first game and get to those as soon as possible.

Until I can overcome my psychological need to complete games in a series in order I’m going to struggle to make a dent in my Steam list. Witcher 2, AssCreed 2+, Far Cry 3, etc etc are all unplayed due to getting bogged down in earlier titles. Gah!

Far Cry is like Final Fantasy, each game is an independent story despite the series having some repeating themes and game mechanics. But you should still play Far Cry 2, because everyone should play Far Cry 2.

I’ve finished the first two, Brotherhood around 3/4 and Revelation just started and dropped. Didn’t bother with the third after trying it at a friend’s place. Won’t bother with the latest one either. Ubisoft has become even worse than Activision with their COD franchise. I get the feeling like we see new AC game every six months, and they are all basically the same thing, just reskinned.

I recently got hold of AC2 as part of the Games for Gold deal (yes, consoles, shuddup). So far, it’s the only AC I own, but naturally now I’ve been forced to think about playing the series. Are there any that can/should be skipped, or are they all required to understand the (AFAIK needlessly convoluted) story?

AC:Revelations is the only one that’s sort of skippable, as it doesn’t really advance either the historical or the present-day story in any meaningful way (it does wrap up some things in the past, but those are things you’d probably figure out yourself just as well). The rest of them are “required reading”, so to speak.

That being said, I wouldn’t recommend skipping Revelations. It’s arguably the worst game in the series so far, but I enjoyed it nevertheless.

I was hoping that they’d make a graceful transition to Watch Dogs, which seems to use the nice free-running, open world mechanics of AssCreed, but without all the techno-magic DNA baggage. It already takes half a dozen studios to crank out an AssCreed game, and I really hope they don’t try to keep them both of them annual franchises.

Surely the whole attraction of playing as a pirate is rum-soaked, busty wench grabbing debauchery? Preferably whilst wearing an outlandish hat and extravagant crimson damask waistcoat and sporting a magnificent beard.

Nothing like stuffy talk about freedom and the rights of men, to spoil all of that. Anyway, I havent played an ass creed since AC2 but this has me mildly intrigued because of y’know Pirates….

You would think they’d realize at a certain point that it’s possible to reach a critical mass of trailers. Whatever you think about their games, Rockstar has done this right for years.

GTA V had, what, four trailers? Six, technically? All of them revealed new things about the game, all of them were released months apart (except for the three-pack of trailers, obviously), all of them provoked feverish discussion, and none of them revealed everything about the game. I’m pretty sure the game did okay.

When you have a product that looks to be underwhelming but you wasted a boatload of money on developing it, then one thing you can do is have marketing shill it non-stop. I wonder if that’s what’s being done here. The intent is to maximize preorder money and get people to rush for the Season Pass before the game actually shows up. Then if the game gets panned, they already have your money.

My point is: It’s one thing to promote and talk about a product you have. It’s another to basically non-stop promote your game. If you go to the official Assassin’s Creed Youtube channel, they’ve released a video every two to three days now.